Re: [osol-discuss] Virtualization (xVM vs VirtualBox)

2008-03-19 Thread Roberto Dircio Palacios-Macedo
i would've liked to see Sun buy qemu rather than virtualbox then, the old guard sysadmins would horror to see running windows on sparc, but then the market for sun servers would be a lot bigger and more $$ would come to sun for sparc hardware, and finally without fear it would really claim it su

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtualization (xVM vs VirtualBox)

2008-03-07 Thread Joe Bonasera
> > Plse see Roberto's blog which shows screenshots of > running Microsoft Window$98 inside a Sparc system, > using QEMU: > > http://www.kraftek.com/blog/index.php?/archives/244-A- > Netra-T1-SPARC-running-Windows98-using-Qemu.html > > Again, since VirtualBox is pretty much based on QEMU, > I wo

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtualization (xVM vs VirtualBox)

2008-03-07 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> To get to my main question, what free tools can I use > to make an Ultra > 10 run Solaris 10 (or OpenSolaris) along with Linux? > Or Windows*? > * I don't really care to run Windows.. but the > marketing pages claimed > it is possible.. which implies that either x86 > w/BIOS are being > emulate

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtualization (xVM vs VirtualBox)

2008-03-03 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> > On 1 Mar 2008, at 16:09, Octave Orgeron wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I think I can clear some of this up. Below are all > the current and > > future virtualization products from Sun: > > > > 1. Dynamic System Domains (hardware partitions) > E10k, E3800-25K, M4k- > > M9k > > 2. Logical Domains

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtualization (xVM vs VirtualBox)

2008-03-03 Thread Calum Benson
On 1 Mar 2008, at 16:09, Octave Orgeron wrote: > Hi, > > I think I can clear some of this up. Below are all the current and > future virtualization products from Sun: > > 1. Dynamic System Domains (hardware partitions) E10k, E3800-25K, M4k- > M9k > 2. Logical Domains (para-virtualization) Ultr

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtualization (xVM vs VirtualBox)

2008-03-01 Thread cognitive . libertarian+ml
* Octave Orgeron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-01 14:03]: > Hi, > > ... > > Beyond that, for home use an x86/x64 box would probably be more > interesting and cheaper for you. You could load Solaris Express and > use the xVM server component (Xen) to create VM's for running Linux, > Windows, and of

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtualization (xVM vs VirtualBox)

2008-03-01 Thread Octave Orgeron
--- Original Message From: W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Saturday, March 1, 2008 5:23:27 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Virtualization (xVM vs VirtualBox) > Is xVM an alias for VirtualBox, or are these two > similar Sun pro

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtualization (xVM vs VirtualBox)

2008-03-01 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Is xVM an alias for VirtualBox, or are these two > similar Sun products? > > The website makes it difficult to understand what xVM > actually does. > There's so much cloudy abstract marketing, and after > being able to > navigate to some text for technical consumption, xVM > is being > presented

Re: [osol-discuss] Virtualization (xVM vs VirtualBox)

2008-02-29 Thread cognitive . libertarian+ml
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-01 01:11]: > > or the Windows target is only available on x86 machines. Correction.. s/target/guest OS/ I found out from the download page that VirtualBox is for intel/amd hardware only. So it's not even an option for the SPARC. xVM must be t

[osol-discuss] Virtualization (xVM vs VirtualBox)

2008-02-29 Thread cognitive . libertarian+ml
Is xVM an alias for VirtualBox, or are these two similar Sun products? The website makes it difficult to understand what xVM actually does. There's so much cloudy abstract marketing, and after being able to navigate to some text for technical consumption, xVM is being presented as some kind of vir